A small handful of people living in tents in a park isn't representative of the movement at large. And it turns out the movement at large is already representative of a large number of Americans :

Poll: Occupy Wall Street is Twice as Popular as The Tea Party



Last week, I noted a Rasmussen Reports survey that gave Occupy Wall Street slightly higher favorable ratings than the Tea Party. Time magazine's new national poll is out, and there's no "slightly" here. The Occupy movement has a 54 percent favorable rating; the Tea Party's rating is 27 percent.




Poll: Occupy Wall Street is Twice as Popular as The Tea Party




And eventually, as things continue to get worse for the 99% and the things I've been telling you about for years, inequality and so on, continue to get worse, Occupy and/or its descendents will become a popular mass movement supported by over half the country.